Enfrentamentos do câncer em família: estudo de revisão

Abstract

The study aims to study how recent publications and about the main confrontations experienced by family members/guardians of the person with cancer and strategies used by health professionals to promote comfort and emotion support. This is a narrative review of the literature, which carried out a search for studies on the platforms PUBMED, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), International Literature in Health Sciences and Online Medical Literature Review and Retrieval System (MEDLINE). From the analysis of the selected articles, two were defined for discussion of the results, namely: a) feelings of the family members selected in the follow-up of the cancer patient; b) strategies used by health professionals to promote emotional support to family members of cancer patients. Based on the results found, we sought to support the multiplicity of feelings and emotions experienced by patients and family members, to overcome the entire process of coping with the disease, and the importance of support from health professionals, who must offer the necessary for patients and families, in order to minimize the effects caused by the disease, to make a diagnosis for the treatment.